Baghpat Horror Killing: UP’s Chandinagar police recovered the body of a 16-year-old girl from the Hindon river on Thursday. In this case, the police caught the victim’s father Pramod, a home guard from Pachin, who allegedly killed the girl after seeing her talking to a boy. Circle Officer Khekra Preeta Singh said that the victim had gone missing on 26 February. An unknown person informed the police that Pramod killed his daughter and threw her body in the Hindon river.
Taking the matter seriously, the police interrogated Pramod after taking him into custody. The police engaged divers to search for the dead body in the river. After which divers recovered the body on Thursday. After the body was recovered, the police sent the body for postmortem. Singh further said that a case of murder has been registered against Pramod. Taking him into custody, the police is interrogating him. The accused will soon be presented in the court and punished under relevant sections.
A similar incident came to the fore in Mathura as well.
In a similar incident, the Mathura police arrested the father and uncle of a 17-year-old girl who was allegedly killed in the name of ‘honour’. According to the police, the girl was murdered because she was in a relationship with a man who was not approved by her family. The victim went missing on January 22 and her boyfriend Gopal Singh was arrested on January 27 and has been in jail since then. According to the police, the girl’s father Balveer Singh, 42, came to know that his daughter was in Palwal. He went there along with his 45-year-old brother Tejpal Singh and allegedly strangulated him and dumped the body in the Siwali canal.